@Arantor That's just the specific site (The Register), not Brits in general. Sheesh. (And it's half-American these days anyway.)
Posts made by Steve_The_Cynic
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RE: Unit of Measurement WTF
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RE: The 10th Anniversary of The Rocky Lobster Incident
@Steve_The_Cynic said in The 10th Anniversary of The Rocky Lobster Incident:
My response to that would be that in such a context, my favourite charity is ... um ... SteveTheCynic.
I should probably point out that if I wanted to give that extra compensation to my favourite charity, I would certainly want me to have the tax advantages from the donation. (In , the advantage is significant, in that it's a tax credit of 75% for the first 1000€ given to charities that are there to help people in need - Red Cross, MSF, GCSF Pompiers, etc. - and 66% for all the rest. Yes, a tax credit, not a tax deduction.)
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RE: The 10th Anniversary of The Rocky Lobster Incident
@Gern_Blaanston said in The 10th Anniversary of The Rocky Lobster Incident:
He was also trying to recruit people for his new company and by Sunday evening he was starting to seem a bit desperate, promising to give equity in the new company to the favorite charity of his first five employees.
My response to that would be that in such a context, my favourite charity is ... um ... SteveTheCynic.
@Gern_Blaanston said in The 10th Anniversary of The Rocky Lobster Incident:
To which someone replied: Peyote?
By the looks of his messages, pretty much that.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@dkf said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
And yes, JIRA encourages this by its design.
I wouldn't necessarily say, "encourages this," but "facilitates this" or "makes this too easy" are definitely on the cards.
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RE: Shipping Antipatterns
@Atazhaia I was going to say that they are an ever-given thing, but ... (And if so, 23 March 2021 would have been a good date to start the thread.)
EDIT: Aaaaaaaannnnnd I got by @accalia ... Bah.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@Gurth said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
just rm some stuff to make room. It’s that bit that has me puzzled as to why it wouldn’t work
I'd put money on Time Machine hooking into file deletions from inside the syscall that everything ultimately uses to delete files.
And yes, I agree, that's every bit as stupid as it sounds, because hooking in a layer above what
rm
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@acrow said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
At least 2 cores.
These days, that's a low bar to pass.
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RE: Bad choice of font
@hungrier said in Bad choice of font:
so the maker has no incentive to put that much effort into it
Apparently not even pride in a job well done...
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RE: Bad choice of font
@Bulb Yeah, the o->p connector is just bad when it appears in the typeface's own name (ffs), but the one that makes my teeth itch is the p->e connector, where the heights of the two sides of the junction don't match.
Overall, a badly designed typeface.
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RE: Glassdoor to un-anonymise accounts (at least internally) if they can...
@Steve_The_Cynic Hmm. No, in fact that's not what I said. Ignore me.
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RE: Glassdoor to un-anonymise accounts (at least internally) if they can...
@ixvedeusi Which comes back to what I said, that it's mostly indifference.
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RE: Glassdoor to un-anonymise accounts (at least internally) if they can...
@Gern_Blaanston I'm tempted to cite this Glassdoor stuff as a counter-example to Hanlon's razor (i.e. that even if X should not be ascribed to malice, it shouldn't be ascribed to stupidity/indifference either). Glassdoor could very easily be operating on the basis that it has something to gain by forcing Glassdoor profiles to follow the Fishbowl rules about verification, and so the unnecessary step of autocreating the Fishbowl profile is a positive for them. Ergo they do it. It isn't really malice, but it isn't indifference or stupidity either.
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RE: Glassdoor to un-anonymise accounts (at least internally) if they can...
@Atazhaia said in Glassdoor to un-anonymise accounts (at least internally) if they can...:
I say: very not legal.
And I agree.
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RE: Glassdoor to un-anonymise accounts (at least internally) if they can...
@Arantor From my admittedly limited understanding of the details(1) of GDPR, it's not even close to legal.
(1) Specifically the part about not putting "give us consent or don't use our service" rules in place...
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@topspin said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@error I think that the supplementary news is not at all "unrelated"...
EDIT: I observe once again that my HP printer continues to operate without any of these problems, despite it being at least seven years old.
Of course, it doesn't use "ink" cartridges (what is that?), and I've never needed to give HP any sort of card number, and if I had, I reported the one I would have given them as lost(1) in late 2016...
(1) Yes, I'm a klutz. I put my wallet somewhere at that point, and discovered the next day that "somewhere" did not correspond with "in my jacket pocket". I suck.
You wrote “despite” where you should’ve written “because”.
No, I meant "despite" because cheapo inkjet problems weren't any less problematic back then(1), and because it's still working just fine after seven years of regular printing, where the cheapo types would have long since given up the ghost and died.(1)
(1) It was in 2001 or so that a colleague bought a cheapo inkjet with actually full starter cartridges for less than the price of a set of replacement cartridges. Well, I say "a cheapo inkjet, but in fact he bought two so he'd be ready when the first one emptied its ink. Good luck making that type of printer last seven years...
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@error I think that the supplementary news is not at all "unrelated"...
EDIT: I observe once again that my HP printer continues to operate without any of these problems, despite it being at least seven years old.
Of course, it doesn't use "ink" cartridges (what is that?), and I've never needed to give HP any sort of card number, and if I had, I reported the one I would have given them as lost(1) in late 2016...
(1) Yes, I'm a klutz. I put my wallet somewhere at that point, and discovered the next day that "somewhere" did not correspond with "in my jacket pocket". I suck.
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RE: Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!
@TwelveBaud "fat binary" is also a more general term for a single file containing multiple distinct binaries(1), and in fact all x86/x86-64 Windows .EXEs are fat binaries because every single one of them contains what's normally(3) a tiny MS-DOS executable that just prints a message saying that the program requires Windows and then quits.
(1) See e.g. almost any binary for an IBM AS/400 (iSystem these days), the aforementioned Windows executables, various generations of mixed-architecture transitionary(2) binaries for MacOS, and so on.
(2) Around the various times that Apple changed the CPU architecture of Macs.
(3) There were exceptions, notably SETUP.EXE for Windows versions before NT and 95, where it was the core setup/re-setup program you could run from DOS, and also the in-Windows (as a proper Windows application) configuration program for "live" changes.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@Bulb Do you have one ticket on the board "selected" (highlighted in pale blue? If so, that ticket appears in the URL, and if you bookmark that URL (rather than the basic "nothing selected" URL for the board), it will try to select that ticket every time you launch the bookmark.
OK, yes, that's its own ...
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RE: Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?
@boomzilla In the context of the thread's origin, the answer might, indeed, buck Betteridge's Rule, depending on exactly how you define "worst". I'd say, though, that "opens new (geographic) markets by deliberately ignoring the local laws that prohibit their business" is pretty bad.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@cvi Are you going to give it matchboxes?
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_Crosses_Engine
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RE: Can I borrow an apology?
@Arantor said in Can I borrow an apology?:
@dkf said in Can I borrow an apology?:
@Arantor said in Can I borrow an apology?:
@topspin I’ve been reading The Register for 24 years.
Might be time to set that aside and get a little work done too.
They don't write enough content for me to read it continuously.
So you read it continually(1) instead?
(1) Ref: The infamous Continual Light spell in D&D, which produced continuous light...
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RE: Can I borrow an apology?
@Arantor Although the title of the article is solid clickbait(1) and not really accurate either. The job is to rewrite chunks of Office 365 Core into Rust instead of C#, rather than rewriting the core of C# into Rust. (For all I know, they want to do that as well, but it's not what the body of the article says.)
(1) Yeah, I know, it's El Reg, but ...
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RE: Visual Basic for Quantum Computers
@BernieTheBernie At least one of the descriptions made it sound more like what I said. And the word is in use in the English-speaking world as well.
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RE: Visual Basic for Quantum Computers
@BernieTheBernie Hmm... I scanned the linked page, and found a word I didn't know, "workation".
So I looked it up.
Apparently, it's not a ballsed-up spelling of "work
station".No, it's not that. It's touted as a great thing for employees, where you can work while on vacation.
Do not want.
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@Watson I'm pretty sure I've seen that in the past. But I haven't flown anywhere that was far enough for me to need to use the plane's toilet since (thinks) probably 2006 (LHR to JFK, Virgin Business), so I might be mis-remembering.
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@Bulb said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread:
Aluminium fails very quickly past certain point
Above all, because it melts at only 660°C, which most fires will trivially exceed.
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RE: Guy brings down thousands of npm builds
@Tsaukpaetra said in Guy brings down thousands of npm builds:
I'm amazed that there was a systemically enforced policy to disallow deletion of a package if it so happens that some other package happens to reference it.
There wasn't, and leftpad happened, so now there is.
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RE: Guy brings down thousands of npm builds
@boomzilla Good Lord, leftpad happened eight (...) years ago. How time flies when you're having ... "fun"...
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RE: Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains
@Gustav Fascinating. Thanks for posting that.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@boomzilla Your xenophobia is showing ...
More seriously, I like France anyway, so that's just icing on the cake.
@Luhmann said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
But let's not start about the 3 days per year you can call in sick without proof because that really start sounding like communism
Huh. doesn't offer that. All sick days must be justified one way or another, but on the other hand, it's possible to get a justification, and therefore a sick day, for a day where you have a big series of medical tests and can't go to work that day.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@Luhmann Ah. OK. Yeah, for me the nominal work hours are 9h00 to 18h00, with an hour and a half for lunch, except Fridays, where the end time is 17h30. Makes a total of 37 hours per week, which is longer than normal for (35 hours per week), and to make up for it, we get 11 days of what's called "RTT" == days off above the total of five weeks we get otherwise. (Yeah, I'm showing off in front of all the ians here...)
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
Which barbaric place are y'all living in that has work days longer than 7.5 hours anyway?
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RE: DEAR FIREFOX
@TimeBandit said in DEAR FIREFOX:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in DEAR FIREFOX:
it's Canonical's version
:theres-your-problem.png:
True, but I'd like to have a choice about the matter. Life was so much better before the IT department got involved in specifying what developers should do with their PCs.
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RE: DEAR FIREFOX
@hungrier So, basically, Firefox sucks at sucking?
The main thing I detest about Firefox is the build that's on my $JOB machine (Ubuntu 20.04LTS) is that it's Canonical's version, and it silently (with no way to alter this behaviour) updates itself in the background. This has two major, and severely undesirable, consequences:
- It forces a restart unexpectly, above all when I open a new tab.
- It doesn't work right in the existing tabs.
- It resets its view of certificate authorities to its own default, which requires me (and everyone else in R&D) to launch a specific set of wibbly updates via Puppet - may its creators burn in all the Hells at once, having been chastised by a GAU-8 beforehand - in order for more or less anything to work properly.
No, I'm not happy about this situation. Why do you ask?
EDIT: yes, I'm aware that I cannot count. If you want to make an issue of that, you can FOAD.
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RE: More Windows 11 weirdness...
Update: This "evening" (in fact the wee-ish hours of Saturday morning, French time), I checked with Windows update, and now I have information about the safeguard hold that remains:
Well, there you are, an actual issue, even if it's a bit carp.
Note above all:
Next steps: We are working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release.
So this problem with 23H2 will be fixed in 24H2?
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RE: More Windows 11 weirdness...
@Parody I do have two screens, yes, although I'd expect a bug like that to be listed on the "you have a safeguard hold for these reasons" page, seeing as how it seems like a Microsoft bug....
But this being Microsoft working in the modern world where it has become normal to hide information that is scary-looking and useful, who knows...
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RE: More Windows 11 weirdness...
@dcon Yeah, that's more or less my take on the situation. After all, I have three unknown subminority components in the machine - a processor and chipset from a company I'm sure nobody's ever heard of called "Intel", a network adapter from "Realtek" (what's that?) and a motherboard from, what is it, "Asus", no, never heard of that either...
And the graphics card's from another unknown called "NVidia", wtf is that?...
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RE: More Windows 11 weirdness...
@loopback0 True, but given my past fun and games with Windows Update and this machine, I'm not really feeling brave enough. I'm just frustrated that Microsoft won't say why it's on safeguard hold.
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More Windows 11 weirdness...
So, the machine that I previously ranted a little about in another thread is back in the news. The new weirdness is still related to Windows Update, but on the not-Insider stream this time. (Yes, I learned my lesson, thanks, why are you asking?)
So W11 23H2 is finally out, and in its infinitessimal wisdom, Windows Update won't let me have the update, and it won't tell me why not.
Oh, there's a link to a page that supposedly gives information about why the update is blocked, but all it says is that there is a "safeguard hold" on my machine. What is the problem that has caused this safeguard hold?
Well, here's the information that Microsoft has revealed to me:
--- BEGIN INFORMATION ---
--- END INFORMATION ---Yup, that's it. I have at least one safeguard hold on my machine, and Microsoft won't tell me what it is / they are. (If they told me, I could look to see if I could remedy the problem, but apparently it's something fairly specific to my machine (my RTX 2080 Ti? the X299 chipset? my Wacom Intuos Art? my four HDDs configured in a striped storage space? who knows?) or to a group of machines like it. (Yes, I know, there aren't going to be many machines out there truly like mine...)
But they won't tell me. They won't even say "there's a problem with Device X, and we're working with the manufacturer to eliminate the problem"...
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@Bulb said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
Back to reasons I hate Jira…
You can't ever find a fucking thing in it.
You might not be able to find stuff in it, but I find stuff I'm looking for pretty much 100% of the time, even if what I'm looking for is not a ticket project-dash-number.
OK, yes, it helps that I know the sort of thing the teams type into the "subject" field of the tickets, but even so, a word or two usually suffices to find what I'm looking for.(1)
(1) Even if it's the promises in songs of yesterday...
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RE: Overheard at Work
@Atazhaia said in Overheard at Work:
So, I guess, Abraham received from God as part of their covenant: a dinner plate.
I find this inexplicably funny. (Er, what's inexplicable is just how funny I find it. It's funny anyway.)
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RE: Overheard in the next cube
@HardwareGeek That works as a reason. (I'm not a big fan of git, but I use it at $JOB because that's what $JOB uses. Sigh. At least I know how to make it behave itself without it totally fucking up in all directions.)
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RE: Overheard in the next cube
@dkf As I said, they all suck in some way or other. (Perforce at least integrates with (some versions of)(1) Visual Studio.)
(1) VS2019
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RE: Overheard in the next cube
@loopback0 said in Overheard in the next cube:
@DogsB said in Overheard in the next cube:
@Medinoc said in Overheard in the next cube:
@Tsaukpaetra "My code isn't broken, the build process team broke it!"
Not so much the team but The build here depends on codegen via excel. Most of it is pulled into hashmaps because who cares if a build is a few seconds faster. You can’t guarantee the order of iterators from a hashmap so some of the mysterious failures might be down to that.
I'm no expert but I reckon if your build process depends on Excel then you
might havedefinitely done goofed.Really, there's no "might have" about it. It could be worse, though. You can at least store Excel files in your least-hated(1)(2) versioning system. Relying on data stored in a database over there would make it worse.
(1) I hope this means "the versioning system you're using", because if you hate that one over there less, why aren't you using it instead? ...
(2) Does anybody actually like a specific versioning system? I get liking the idea of versioning systems, but they all suck in some way or other.
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RE: Yet another ugly web app
@Arantor said in Yet another ugly web app:
If anything, blame HTTP 2.0 for adding forms.
Web forms of one sort or another have been around for far longer than HTTP 2.0. (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7540 , 2015.) Maybe you meant HTML 2?
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RE: We reset your e-mail password
@Tsaukpaetra said in We reset your e-mail password:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in We reset your e-mail password:
I have no hope for you.
I'm not that young!
The reference is significantly more recent than I thought...
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RE: We reset your e-mail password
@hungrier said in We reset your e-mail password:
@Gurth TBH I would have just expected Apple to propagate the passwords from the Keychain to whatever device linked with your Apple account as needed, so you wouldn't have to faff around with copy pasting to e.g. set up the same mail account on your Mac and iPad
How would it do that between my iPad and my iPhone, seeing as how my main computer(2) is on Windows. (And all my other physical(1) computers are on Windows 10 or 11 also...)
(1) I have some VMs on assorted flavours of Linux, but the host systems are all on Windows.
(2) Yes, I know that my iPhone is a pocket computer(3) and my iPad is a pocket computer for people with Tardis Trousers and my Apple Watch is a
Wrist Wizardwrist computer(3), but I don't think of them as computers, and I hope y'all know what I meant...(3) that can also make and receive phone calls. (Which is why I think of the Watch as a Wrist Wizard(4).)
(4) If you don't recognise the reference, I have no hope for you.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@Gustav Technically oriented studies for the PM roadmap.
And that's a whole WTF of its own, since doing those studies is the job of the tech leads, and yet it appears nowhere on our(1) formal job description(2).
And to be honest, it's not really a shared workflow, except for the last step (based on the study, does PM add the project to the roadmap or not).
(1) I'm one of them, duh.
(2) And it shouldn't, either, because it shouldn't be our job.